For Thursday 12-9-04 update, scroll to the end for red text. Modern medicine is marvelous! This little guy would not be with us today without it -- and the grace…

You never know. Our 4th grandchild WAS to be born on December 31. But now there are complications -- the umbilical cord wrapped around the baby's neck and my daughter's water…

Last evening I spend several hours visiting a convent with a serious vocational crisis. It has gotten so bad so rapidly that their convent property is covered in mud with…